Roundabout Announces Revival Of Pal Joey For 2008-2009 Season
Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Marc Platt has announced a new Broadway production of Pal Joey, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
Set in Chicago in the late 1930s, Pal Joey is the story of Joey Evans, a brash, scheming song and dance man with dreams of owning his own nightclub. Joey abandons his wholesome girlfriend Linda English, to charm a rich, married older woman, Vera Simpson, in the hope that she’ll set him up in business.
Pal Joey will feature a new book by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, based on the original book by John O’Hara, with music direction by Tony Award winner Paul Gemignani, choreography by Graciela Daniele and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello at Studio 54 on Broadway.
The cast will be announced shortly. The design team will includes two-time Tony Award winner Scott Pask (Sets), five-time Tony Award winner William Ivey Long (Costumes), two-time Tony Award winner Peggy Eisenhauer and eight-time Tony Award winner Jules Fisher (Lights), Tony Meola (Sound) and Don Sebesky (Orchestrator).
The Rodgers & Hart score for Pal Joey includes such classic songs as “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “I Could Write a Book,” “You Mustn’t Kick It Around,” and “Zip,” among others. The new production of Pal Joey will also feature “I’m Talking to My Pal,” a song that had been dropped from the score during its out-of-town tryout, and will be heard on Broadway for the first time.
The production is the first Broadway revival of Pal Joey in over 30 years. The musical will begin previews on November 21st, 2008 and open officially December 11th, 2008 at Studio 54 on Broadway. This will be a limited engagement.
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